It has been 148 days since we first informed you of Lynn Hoppes's copy-and-pasting habits. And dear reader, it's over. All it took for ESPN to acknowledge the widespread plagiarism in its archives was for the company's news honcho, John Walsh, to float a rumor in front of a class of journalism students that I was involved in some sort of love triangle with Hoppes. (No, really. That's what happened.) Shortly after that, I was informed by ESPN's PR department that the stories would be updated.

The final tally? Fifteen stories that borrowed from Wikipedia have been affected: 12 were deleted altogether; three got a rewrite and a nasty little tagline that fairly vibrates with suppressed annoyance.

This post has been amended to remove passages that did not meet ESPN standards for original language.